Well, since I had only had less than six hours of sleep it was clear that things would go a little sideways. When I opened my bullet journal for the first time in the evening I also found that I hadn’t opened it since I wrote Friday’s list, so no wonder I felt unmoored. I always do so much better with something written down.
I did write my morning pages and new words on the novel-in-progress, so that was good. I also talked with my husband and then with my mother on the phone for almost an hour. She said she hadn’t talked to anyone much the week before, plus I had to bring her up to speed on all my health stuff and doctor’s appointments.
She was very impressed that I had been able to get all those specialist appointments for February, by the way. There is a big upside to living in a big city, which my mother doesn’t. Both my mother and my aunt have had times where they had to wait weeks for an MRI for broken vertebrae which is definitely not fun.
My husband was on a spring cleaning kick and emptied and cleaned both a cupboard in the kitchen and the bathroom cupboard over the washbasin. Did I tell you that he found the source of the weird small bugs that looked almost but not quite like flaxseed? Well, there was this drawer full of dried bread to use in cooking, ahem. Now that drawer is empty.
He also vacuumed the annex and made lunch:
After lunch I succumbed to sloth until my husband asked me to help him repair his dresser. Which I did for an hour. Did I tell you about my knee suddenly hurting as if I had twisted it somehow on Monday or so? And that it continued hurting all week and I had no idea what had happened?
Turns out when you sit on the ground twisted to try and repair a dresser things can happen to your knee. Huh. I’m all fine now but I’m happy to have an explanation.
Anyway, I hard ordered new drawer rails for one of the drawers and we installed them. Husband is pretty handy but hates fiddly things and small screws. Also, I’m our designated person to assemble flat-packed furniture. I actually like it, it reminds me of building LEGO. Twisting myself to drill small new holes into an old dresser – not quite as much fun – but we prevailed, put those new rails and the drawer in, took two other drawers out, retightened screws and fixed another drawer and now the thing is all fixed and working again, yeah!
After that I had planned to do bodyweight training with the boy but he wanted to eat something first. So I started the dishes and he then helped me dry them.
We did our training. I have now progressed to hanging off the pull-up bar for five whole seconds because I lose all will to live. And I did it for 3 sets of 3. Wearing compression gloves actually seems to be making a difference, by the way, while my fingers are not exactly pain-free it’s more of a general soreness instead of sharp pain in the joints. So, yeah!
By the time we were finished it was almost time for my monthly coaching call over Zoom, so I ate a quick dinner and went off. Coaching was super nice, there were only three of us including the coach so we did get more than our allotted ten minutes. We talked a lot about the fires in LA because one of the people on the call lives only ten minutes away from that, brr.
After that there was still time to watch an episode of C-drama. I had put a bottle of beer in the fridge before and so I enjoyed that while crocheting and being entertained by extravagant silliness.
The boy took a shower, my husband showed up and sat with me for a bit, then I was very determined to go to bed early, let myself be distracted by stuff on my iPad and turned the lights out a little too late.
And now, new week, new luck and my husband’s birthday.
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